According to IRNA from the Taekwondo Federation, the first round of the 2021 Women’s World Taekwondo Championships (G4) with the participation of 170 taekwondo fighters from 31 countries started today (Thursday, December 25) at the Green Hall of Riyadh and will last for three days.
Today and on the first day of these competitions, the preliminary and semi-final stage fights of weights minus 46, minus 62 and plus 73 kg were held. Saeedeh Nasiri (weight minus 46 kg), Kowsar Asaseh (weight minus 62 kg), Narges Mirnourollahi (weight Minus 62 kg) and Zeinab Ismaili (weight minus 73 kg) were the representatives of Iran.
Kowsar, the fifth Iranian taekwondo fighter, managed to stand on the third platform of this period of competitions; In the first match, he had to fight Stavrola Desila from Greece, the holder of the 2018 European Championship bronze, who announced his resignation before the tournament; He went on to face Ashley Crowold Hugopush, a Canadian with two gold, two bronze medals, and a number of tournament medals, winning 15-5.
In the semi-finals, Iran’s representative in the weight category of minus 62 kg met Petra Olbova from the Czech Republic. And reached the bronze medal.
But Saeedeh Nasiri, the first weight representative, won 17-11 in her first fight against the representative from Russia, but her second match was against the South Korean taekwondo fighter, who was the runner-up in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games, runner-up in the 2021 Asian Games and 2018 world youth champion. Gave up 22 to 18.
Narges Mirnourollahi, in the weight category of minus 62 kg, defeated the African champion Kholal Maryameh from Morocco 10-7 in the first step, but lost 19-7 in the second fight against Caroline Santos from Brazil, the world runner-up and the American champion. Zeinab Ismaili, the heavyweight representative of our country in the first fight against Christiana Adebayo, the European runner-up from the champion Russia, lost with a score of 12 to one and withdrew from the competition.
These people are led by Mehro Kamrani as the head coach and Reyhaneh Fooladi as the coach.
The competitions of the second day will be held tomorrow (Friday) in the weights of minus 49, minus 57 and minus 73. Nahid Kiani, Zahra Sheidaei and Melika Mir Hosseini are the representatives of Iran.
The 2021 Women’s World Taekwondo Championships are 4G and the first to third place winners will be awarded 40, 24 and 14.40 points, respectively, in order to increase their Olympic ranking.
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